Primary and Secondary Colours Worksheet
Artist's tip (Two make one): Primary colours: red, yellow, blue — they cannot be mixed from other paints. Secondary colours: orange = red + yellow, green = blue + yellow, purple = red + blue. To find a missing colour, ask: which two primaries are inside this secondary colour?
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- 1.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red (d) green
- 2.🎨 Is orange a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 3.True or false: mixing yellow and red paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
- 4.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) purple (d) orange
- 5.🎨 Is yellow a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour
- 6.True or false: mixing red and yellow paint makes green. (a) False (b) True
- 7.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) red (b) purple (c) orange (d) green
- 8.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) yellow and red (b) blue and yellow (c) blue and red (d) yellow and blue
- 9.🎨 Is purple a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 10.A secondary colour is made by mixing… (a) two secondary colours (b) two primary colours (c) black and white (d) three neutral colours
- 11.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and purple? (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 12.True or false: the paint sum blue + ? = green needs blue. (a) True (b) False
- 13.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) red (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue
- 14.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) blue
- 15.Which two paint colours mixed together make purple? (a) red and blue (b) blue and yellow (c) yellow and blue (d) red and yellow
- 16.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? yellow + ? = green (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow
- 17.True or false: orange is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 18.Which colours can NOT be made by mixing other paints? (a) the tertiary colours (b) brown and grey (c) the secondary colours (d) the primary colours
- 19.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = orange (a) red (b) yellow (c) blue
- 20.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) orange (b) green (c) purple (d) blue
- 21.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + yellow = orange (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 22.True or false: blue is a primary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 23.🎨 How many primary colours do painters mix with?
- 24.Which primary colour is in BOTH orange and green? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red
- 25.🎨 Mix red and yellow paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 26.True or false: yellow is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
- 27.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? ? + red = orange (a) yellow (b) red (c) blue
- 28.🎨 Mix red and blue paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) green (c) orange
- 29.Which two paint colours mixed together make orange? (a) red and yellow (b) blue and red (c) red and blue (d) blue and yellow
- 30.🎨 How many primary colours are mixed to make one secondary colour?
- 31.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) yellow (b) blue (c) red (d) orange
- 32.🎨 Mix yellow and red paint. Which colour do you get? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
- 33.True or false: mixing yellow and blue paint makes green. (a) True (b) False
- 34.🎨 How many secondary colours are there?
- 35.🎨 Is blue a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 36.🎨 Is green a primary colour or a secondary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour
- 37.🧩 Which paint colour fills the gap? red + ? = purple (a) blue (b) yellow (c) red
- 38.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) green (b) red (c) blue (d) yellow
- 39.Which secondary colour has NO blue in it? (a) purple (b) orange (c) green
- 40.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) blue (b) red (c) purple (d) yellow
Answer key
- green
- secondary colour
- False
- red
- primary colour
- False
- red
- yellow and red
- secondary colour
- two primary colours
- red
- False
- orange
- blue
- red and blue
- blue
- True
- the primary colours
- yellow
- blue
- red
- True
- 3
- yellow
- orange
- False
- yellow
- purple
- red and yellow
- 2
- orange
- orange
- True
- 3
- primary colour
- secondary colour
- blue
- green
- orange
- purple
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